Area 51 Preview

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Team Xbox smacked up a preview of Midway's Area51, which John Romero and Tom Hall are said to be working on:

Even in its early state, Area 51 is a great looking game. All of the aliens move in a realistic manner (at least we think so) and the soldiers take various positions according to the current situation. The game features some very nice lighting, casting shadows in all of the right eerie places. The environments are certainly creepy, and have a distinct look to give players the feeling that some weird stuff went down, such as burning fires, blood splattered walls, and bullet holes along the walls. Even in the last build we saw, the screen was littered with enemies, and featured no slow down at all. Area 51's graphics engine was built from scratch, and needless to say, we are certainly excited to see all it can do. The environments will react to real world physics and we spent plenty of time just playing around; shooting holes in flags (which actually make holes, not just a texture map), blasting away and control consoles, etc.